If your intrested go to www.dyndns.com follow the links for services and dynamic DNS.

You will have to register but thats all and its free.

You can then run your own server on your own box (which most will probably be doing anyway) once you registered a name. Theres more too, I have just configured postfix (what a beast) and have now the ability to send and receive emails locally and externally (Though some ISP bounce me as I have a dynamic IP).

Anyway take your knowledge further and give it a go.

Of course its not a good idea for your work place where a fixed IP and a purchased hostname are essential (well almost essential) but for your home computer its a gift from the gods.

Ibbo

Personally I use DynDNS.org with DirectUpdate for automatically setting the DNS if and when the IP changes, and run MailEnable Std as a mail server.

dyndns.org and dyndns.com are the same :P

EEEEK saw the designed for windows XP logo and legged it .

shudder to the thought

Ibbo

so I notice.

They were two different operations and the .com was a paid service originally.


It runs absolutely rock steady on 2K, 6 months since the last reboot on one server and that's only because I had to physically move it.

Thats pretty good going, in the past i would not have dreamed of hosting on a windows platform but these days they have come so far so quick that i am convinced they have a linux Kernel running at the heart of em.

Complete nonsense I know but i serves to wind up my Windows groupie mates especially when i say its why he dont release his code (fear of the embaressment that he would finaly get got caught nicking open source ideas and branding them Microsoft). Like LDAP to ADS.

Ibbo